Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!samsung!usc!srhqla!demott!kdq From: kdq@demott.com (Kevin D. Quitt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: QEMM386 or 386MAX? Advice wanted. Message-ID: <1991Jan21.201901.11602@demott.com> Date: 21 Jan 91 20:19:01 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: DeMott Electronics Co., Van Nuys CA Lines: 27 In article bchen@wpi.WPI.EDU (Bi Chen) writes: > >Hi, Dear netter: > >I bought my 386/25 recently with 4MB ram installed and bundled with some >popular softwares such as MS-DOS4.01 and Windows3.0. I heard both QEMM386 >and 386MAX will save some low memory by loading TSR/dirver to high. I >would like to order one to free some low memory for my compiler and still >keep some useful TSRs handy around. One of my friend has a similar machine >and installed QEMM386. But he told me that QEMM386 could not install some >TSR such as pcshell or desktop in pctools even though he had a lot of >expenad memory. But form what I read form menu that the 386MAX does not >coexist with window3.0. Is the problem mentioned caused by his wrong >installation of QEMM386(ver. 5.11 as he told me) or by QEMM386. Will the >QEMM386 be any helpful if I run window in 386 enchanced mode? Which is >better, QEMM386 or 386MAX? Will either later version will load those >big ("usually < 50KB") TSR to high memory? Version 5.1 of 386MAX is certified as a "Microsoft(r) Windows(tm) Version 3.0 Compatiable Product". And does all sorts of whiz-bang stuff. -- _ Kevin D. Quitt demott!kdq kdq@demott.com DeMott Electronics Co. 14707 Keswick St. Van Nuys, CA 91405-1266 VOICE (818) 988-4975 FAX (818) 997-1190 MODEM (818) 997-4496 PEP last